Posts by jwenting

you're wrong.
Sun's right.

The JDK is an SDK, but an SDK doesn't have to be a JDK.

a String is never void.
And you can never pass a method.

learn English, and learn patience.
We've no time to decode the nonsense you're penning down, which is definitely NOT English.
And we're not your slaves either, to drop everything we're doing to serve your every wish instantly.

so first you are too lazy to think up your own project idea, and now you want people to write the code for you so you don't have to do that either.

I hope you fail utterly.

learn English first. The word "doubt" is never used like that.
And with that newfound knowledge, read the language specification.

not everyone who gets "diversity training" poured down their neckt turns into a PC robot...

Some actually regain consciousness and redouble their efforts to rid the world of PC madness.

no, I'm too nice to resort to their kind of behaviour.
I'll just let them rank up some more infraction points towards the day they'll end up banned due to their own actions.

have you learned anything at all?
Your teacher told you exactly what to do, any more detailed and he'd have had to write the code for you.

no, we're NOT going to do your homework for you and we're NOT going to give you private help.

If you'd paid attention in class you'd by now have known what to do and how to do it, so if you fail it's all your own fault and quite deserved.

because it's a lazy kid that wants its homework done for free. It's also spamming me with PMs and resurrecting other threads.

and Java has excellent OpenGL support and networking support that far exceeds anything C++ has to offer...

yah, it's a bunch of dimwits who are on a fixed price contract wanting that contract changed so they get more money if their writings are used in places they'd not thought of before they signed that contract.

It doesn't work that way.

more skiing = more broken bones, more cracked skulls, more torn ligaments.
no, thanks. My joints are bad enough as it is.

and why do you believe that? Where's your scientifically correct evidence?
How do you explain away the fact that Mars is warming faster than the earth and that's caused entirely by the sun in your assertion that the warming of the earth (which may or may not be happening) is caused by humans, not the sun?

you obviously are deaf and blind both as you've missed 10 years+ of information available online, in bookstores, and in libraries around the world.

if (a - b > 0) {
 // blah blah blah
}

Sheesh, how hard can it get?

Actually, I love cool and rainy weather, reminds me of Ireland. Good time to go to the pub with friends!

You can bloody well have ours... And I think most Irish would feel the same way.

Just like an inconvenient truth.

one difference, Gory Al's movie was written, performed, and created by the greenies themselves rather than by people afraid of them.
It shows in the worse cinematics, worse plot, and worse acting (as well as the even more blatant lies) :)

The most inconvenient truth in Gory Al's creation is the fact that Gory Al flunked on science in highschool and that his main house alone (he has several more) has the energy consumption of a midsized town.

exposes all those talkshow hosts. They're now shown to be even more stupid than I always thought they were, they don't even write their own texts (let alone come up with them on the spot as they want to make you think during their "live" performances).

I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.

it doesn't, if you know a bit about how to configure your system.
Just add some lines to your hosts file that redirect all domains for ads to 127.0.0.1 and they'll never show up again.
Needs some maintaining when you encounter a new adserver, but the most common ones (google, doubleclick, maybe one or two more) will cover 90% or more of all ads.

you can't. Map's aren't sorted.

what do you mean "but you couldn't format it"?
A Date's a Date. There's no need to format anything when working with a Date internally.
Only when presenting it for output may you want to perform formatting.

what happened to that basic tutorial on Sun's website?
If it's still there it'd tell you everything you need to know.

yup. I've seen some (never published, it was too politically incorrect as the study was funded by the green movement... Says enough about how such studies are published, meaning only if the results match the contracted results) studies that indicate clearly that in order to be "Greener" than an oil or gas fired plant takes a windfarm of the same capacity 10-15 years. Those plants only last 15-20 years at most before they have to be replaced because they're worn out (that oil fired plant otoh will easily last 50+ years).
Solar plants are worse. They too are no greener until they've run for 10-15 years, but they need replacing after only 5-10 years so they're in reality LESS "green" than burning oil or gas.

we've seen it all, and have for thousands of years of recorded history.
Before that the earth has gone through a lot worse during its several billion year history.

So there's nothing new about "extreme weather", except the way it's reported that's becoming ever more sensationalist and widespread.
Where a heatwave in the 1940s would be reported in regional papers, in the 19760s in national papers, today it's global news and hailed as "global warming is here to destroy the world".

actually the vast majority of the world wanted to get rid of Saddam but didn't want to be the ones footing the bill...

Only France, China, and Russia (of the important countries) didn't want to get rid of Saddam, and that was because they had extremely lucrative oil and weapons deals with him (in direct contravention of UN resolutions they'd themselves signed).

Those WMDs were in fact found. But whenever something was found the press (and the "experts" from the left) denounced it as "not enough".
Even when they found entire factories it was considered "not enough".

"do my homework for me", probably.

well said. It's estimated that any distraction from the task you're working on will cost you 15 minutes at least in productivity.
So if you are working on coding for project A and someone calls for a "quick update" on the status of project B that takes you 5 minutes to handle, you've really lost 20 minutes.

It sounds, to me, like the positives far outweigh the negatives for these units. This is especially true considering the fact that these roof-top wind machines offset the need for energy from uglier, more polluting sources.

By the way, some of the newer wind machines are actually quite nice to look at.

Hoppy :)

Spoken like someone who doesn't have to live near hundreds of them...
And doesn't need a rooftop for his commute or medevac ;)

the Nazis didn't execute millions by firing squad, too cumbersome and slow (and too expensive in bullets).
Nor did Himler ever get sick of it. AFAIK he never personally took part in it anyway.

But as a typical leftist you can't help but resort to insults and personal attacks when you don't have an argument so your lack of historical and economic knowledge is somewhat forgiven.

Why is someone who killed someone drunk driving allowed to be in office?

Killing a drunk driver may prevent more deaths down the road.

yup, that's a classic too. And a darn shame they're gone. The silly idea that the USAF doesn't need them (and especially the Ravens) was IMO a complete mistake.
Having to hope for a few slow, lumbering, overworked, Prowlers to escort your supersonic taskforce of Strike Eagles and Falcons downtown is so wrong it doesn't bear thinking.

But then in the Clinton years thinking was the last thing on the minds of the US cabinet (as it is with most politicians to be honest).

1) keep backups...
2) keep organised...
3) don't hope we're going to read thousands of lines of code to find the one that's wrong.

it's not. If it's so easy you don't need some mindreading software to do it for you, you can remember it yourself.
What if you're on the phone to a customer, doing some research, etc. etc.?
No software is going to know what project that's for...

What if you're eating lunch around the corner but leave your PC turned on with that source code loaded? Are you going to charge your customer for that?
Or you forget to close your tracker overnight and it happily records 8 hours of dreamtime as hard labour.

If it's so easy to make according to you, there's nothing stopping you from making it yourself, is there?
And if there is a demand for it (which according to you there implicitly is) it's sure to make you some money too.

you'll find out that getting the project name from visual studio isn't fine grained enough.
A particular project can have many different trackable issues associated with it.
And each issue could well have multiple activities which may or may not involve visual studio and may or may not have to be logged independently as sub activities.

IOW, there's no one size fits all solution, and there's no magic mindreading software that knows what you're doing when even if it could read out visual studio (and if it did, it wouldn't know if it were the actual window you're currently working with. I use multiple computers simulataneously at work, often as many as 3 workstations and terminals open to 5+ servers. Throw in some VPN connections to remote machines and there's nothing to be gleaned from anything anymore for your super snooping automatic time tracker.

gosh. You want software that reads your mind and can tell what exactly you're working on at each moment?

I'm sorry, but there are telepathic computers yet.

gah, now the lazy homework kiddos are crossposting across sites even.
Literally the same text that he used for a copy/paste message on the Sun forums...

read the browser's plugin API documentation.

one word of caution: don't trust anything you read in Herb's book unless and until you find it confirmed elsewhere.
It's not all bad, but there is a large number of glaring errors caused by his fundamental misunderstanding of some core concepts of the Java language and its runtime environment.

While he is right that static nested classes have restrictions, they can be useful nonetheless. Particulary they can be useful when employed in combination with nested interfaces inside interfaces and abstract classes to provide callback mechanisms.

the ones on buildings may well work. The building itself will also effect wind patterns so putting something on top won't do much.
And they're in a noisy area anyway (inner cities) so the noise won't be heard much either.

What they will do is make roof evacuation a lot harder if not impossible, as they take up what room there is for helicopters to land and/or approach. For buildings with helipads for incoming tennants that may well be a reason to not want such a thing up there.

On most buildings you can see them from the ground though (but the ones we have here aren't on very tall buildings and usually right on the edge of the roof, shouting "look, we're green").

the name "Falcon" was chosen by a Pentagon comittee, not by pilots. I guess the jet drivers just wanted a name of their own...
At least Viper's more dignified than what pilots call the A-7 and B-52 :)

I do them the geek way. I take them apart and put them back together with everything in the right place :)
Of course I sometimes have parts left over...

Yes it would work, but we'd never do it because of "cruel and inhuman punishment" clause. USSC is looking into abolishing leathel injection so its not likely they'd approve executions. Now then, the guillotine might be a different matter :)

Summary execution by firing squad isn't inhuman. It's quick...
And if it's done often enough it's not unusual either (and it's done a lot, just not in the US).

You see problems where there are none ;)

do your own thinking kid...

the system of layout managers is highly flexible and very powerful but with that comes complexity and a learning curve.

Kid, that "= =" IS the problem.
At least it's the problem that prevents the code you posted from compiling.

There are quite possibly more problems in the stuff you didn't post (if any), but that's certainly wrong.

And your idea that it would give you another error if it were wrong is wrong as well.

excellent idea.

and here you are automatically failed for your flight physical even for PPL if you have any eye surgery done (including LASIC).

>When I said "The holes in any wall can be plugged by fear." I was implying summary execution.

ok, that's just lame. does anybody have any "realistic" suggestions?

hmm, summary execution does sound like a realistic suggestion.
Worked in the 1800s, can't see why it wouldn't work today.

Of course. But the current singleminded focus on "CO2" (which isn't even a polutant) is extremely dangerous and counterproductive.

If takes billions and billions of Euros away from things that could have a real effect in making things clean and shiny with no positive effect whatsoever.
In fact the effect is largely negative in that the landscape gets dotted with wind turbines, each of which requires an access road for maintenance crews, and is a meatgrinder for migratory birds.
Each also makes a terrible racket when going and is a sore on the landscape (if you live in the middle of several hundreds of the darn things like I do you'd realise that).
Used to be you could see for miles here and have a clear view to the edge of the world, no longer.
And the environmental impact of the things is not well understood. It is known that they shift wind and rain patterns in their vicinity, leaving a strong wind shadow behind them that sees less rain than it would without the wind turbine in place.
We're already seeing a requirement for increased irrigation in areas where there are a lot of them, which means pumping up surface water with electrical pumps and spraying it to undo the damage those windmills do (while using the electricity those turbines produce to do it).

Similar effects on ocean currents are being observed around turbine farms in the sea working on tidal energy.